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MC929028: Microsoft Loop Adds Personal Workspace and Converts Ideas Workspace to Shared

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Rollout timing shifted later, reducing urgency slightly. Admin tasks are mostly awareness and optional policy changes for workspace creation. Users will notice the new personal workspace and a change in how the Ideas workspace behaves, visible in their experience. No mandatory admin action, but governance and compliance teams may want to review storage and lifecycle alignment with OneDrive processes.
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ℹ️ WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
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AT A GLANCE

Loop now gives each user a personal workspace and converts the old Ideas workspace into a shared one. Worth checking governance settings.
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END USERS

Users now have a personal Loop workspace and will see Ideas act as a shared workspace.
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IT ADMINS

Review Loop workspace policies if you want to restrict creating or sharing workspaces.
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ROLLOUT TIMELINE

Past:
Feb–Mar 2025

📢 Official Microsoft Message Center Announcement

MC929028: Microsoft Loop Adds Personal Workspace and Converts Ideas Workspace to Shared
Message ID: MC929028

Updated January 24, 2025: We have updated the content. Thank you for your patience.

The Loop app now provides a personal workspace to all users, which is shared with Copilot Pages. This personal workspace is a user-owned SharePoint Embedded container, one per user. Governance, lifecycle management and compliance processes are similar to that user’s OneDrive. The existing Ideas workspace will begin functioning as a shared Loop workspace because it is not a user-owned container.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 422727 and 422729.

[When this will happen:]

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out mid-February 2025 (previously mid-January) and expect to complete by late March 2025 (previously late February).

[How this will affect your organization:]

Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 422727: The personal workspace is a user-owned SharePoint Embedded container and follows similar governance, lifecycle management and compliance processes to the user’s OneDrive, details about departure and storage can be found here.

Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 422729: The existing Ideas workspace, while positioned in the product as a personal workspace, uses the shared Loop workspace infrastructure and is not managed with the user account. As a result, with the arrival of the truly personal workspace, the existing Ideas workspace will begin functioning as a shared Loop workspace in the user’s experience.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

There is nothing you need to do to prepare. These changes will roll to your tenant automatically.

If you wish to disable the creation of Loop workspaces, you can configure it using the admin policies found here and here.

Source: Microsoft Message Center • Analysed by MWPro

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